Magnetic medicine-holder.



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WITNESSES ORNEB.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LEONIDAS G. \VOOLLEY, OF KENTON, OHIO.

MAGNETIC MEDICINE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,447, dated October 28, 1902.

Application filed May 23. 1902.

To all whom, it may concern;

Be it known that I, LEONIDAS G. WooLLEY, residing at Kenton, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Magnetic Medicine Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention seeks to provide a simple, ornamental, and convenient device for holding and carrying medicine of a powdered, pill, or tablet form.

Primarily my invention comprehends a holder consisting of a body, including an ordinary horseshoe-magnet, non-magnetic side members, and a keeper for closing the poles of the magnet and pivotally supported to form a closure member adapted to act as a cork or cover for the holder.

In its more complete nature my invention includes certain details of construction and peculiar combination of parts, all of which will hereinafter be fully described, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device as it appears ready for use. Fig. 2 is a section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating the several parts constituting my invention detached.

In carrying out my invention the holder is formed of a body portion consisting of the ordinary horseshoe-magnet 1 of any suitable or desired size and two side plates 2 2 of nonmagnetic metal, preferably aluminium. The

sides 2 2 have the shape of the magnet and are adapted to lie flatwise thereagainst and made fast thereto by a cross-rivet 13, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, by reference to which it will also be noticed the said plates are convexed in horizontal and vertical planes to provide for a large pocket or receptacle X to hold the contents, the bottom of the pocket or receptacle being formed by the magnetbody 1, as shown. At the upper end and at one edge the side plates 2 have registering apertured ears 2 2*, and the said upper ends extend beyond the pole ends of the magnetbody 1, as indicated at 2", to form strength- Serial No- 108,742. (No model.)

ing portions for guiding the combined keeper and closure member 3 and for holding the same from lateral strain under ordinary conditions in handling and carrying the device. The keeper 3 is fulcrumed on the cross-pin 4, mounted in the apertures 2- 2 of the side plates, and it has an angle extension 3 which serves as a tilting lever or thumb-piece for overcoming the magnetic pull that locks the keeper down on the magnetic poles, which operation can be conveniently effected by the pressure of the thumb or finger when it is desired to open the lid or cover of the holder and pour out the contents thereof.

So far as described it will be noticed myinvention provides a very simple, novel, and convenient device for carrying medicine or other proprietary articles, the magnetic force holding the cover member closed at all times when it is not pressed upon for gaining access to the contents of the holder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

ends and bottom consist of a magnetic metal, its sides'of non-magnetized material, and a keeper for joining the poles of the magnetized portion,said keeper serving as a closure member for the holder, as set forth.

2. A goods-holder, comprising a magnet, non-magnetic side plates connected with the magnet, said side plates extending beyond the pole ends of the magnet to form a guide,

and a keeper for joining the poles of the magnet, and adapted to fit within the guide portions of the sides, as set forth.

3. As a new article, a goods-holder consisting of a body, formed of a horseshoe-magnet, non-magnetic sides fitted thereon, and a pivotally mounted keeper, adapted to swing down on the pole ends of the magnet, as set forth.

4. As a new article, a goods-holder comprisinga body formed of a horseshoe-magnet,nonmagnetic side plates joined with the fiat sides of the magnet, said side plates having their upper ends projected beyond the pole ends of in the said projecting ends of the sides, for

the purposes set forth.

1. A goods-l1older,com prising a body,whose the magnet, and a keeper pivotally mounted 5. As a new article of manufacture,a goodsclosure member, said keeper having a lever l1older,consisting of a horseshoe-magnet,nonmagnetic side plates, the upper ends of which extend beyond the pole ends of the magnet, said ends having apertured ears, and a keeper pivotally mounted on said ears to close down on the pole ends of the magnet and form a projection, for the purposes described.

LEONIDAS G. WOOLLEY.

Witnesses:

FRED G. DIETERICH, LEE B. KEMON. 

